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of course, hosting a node at home is the best option. but maybe you don't have 200gb of ssd storage at home. maybe you have a slow network. maybe you want to use a mobile wallet such as monerujo without using someone else's untrusted node or having to deal with port forwarding (that is, if your ISP even lets you port-forward) and having to leave your machine or a server running 24/7 at home. i myself needed such a service because i don't have any servers at home (i don't own much hardware, in case LE decides to come one day and seize all my shit). besides that, i'm behind CGNAT and don't have enough space on my nvme drive right now. this is why i created this plan
Sounds like alot of maybes. I don't understand why you need to pay someone to run a node but ig it's your money. You can also run a pruned node it uses ~70% less storage. I'm running mine on hdd. Just sync on SSD and copy over to hdd. You can prolly get a le potato for 35$ a cheap hdd for 20$ and run it at home. Or just get a cheap computer from Facebook marketplace or something. This way you own the hardware for a lifetime while actually contributing to decentralization.
right, you could do that, or you could host it on a vps, the choice is yours. no one's forcing you to do anything, or even implying that you should do one over the other